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StevieM

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4. Trump was always going to find a way to tell those people to look at the race that way.
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 01:29 PM
Apr 2020

And if they want to buy it, then they will buy it. Besides, I don't think they need much motivation to turn out and support the fascist movement that they believe so strongly in.

For the record, Hillary was not the great enemy of the right that she is today until she ran for president in 2016 and they cultivated the fake email scandal, and switched the Benghazi conspiracy theories from Obama to her. She was unbelievably popular back in 2012 when she finished up as Secretary of State. And the right pretty much forgot about her.

She became a lightening rod because she was the 2016 nominee and the GOP had a lot of extra years to plan out their swift boating due to her early status as the overwhelming front runner in the polls. The fake email scandal was their swift boating master piece.

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